22nd Street is an east–west street passing through the
Noe Valley,
Mission
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, and
Potrero Hill
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districts of
San Francisco
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,
California
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. The street is discontinuous and exists in several sections: the main western section between Hoffman Avenue and the Bayshore Freeway, a segment from Vermont Street to Wisconsin Street, a short alley off of Missouri Street, and an eastern section from Texas Street to Pier 70. Below the elevated
Interstate 280 and at-grade eastern section lies
22nd Street station,
Caltrain's only station beneath ground level.
Steepness
It is one of the steepest streets in the city. In the 250-foot block from Vicksburg to Church Streets in the
Noe Valley neighborhood, the city map shows a 79-foot descent along the south side of the street ( along the north side) for an average
grade
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of just over 31%, about the same as the steepest block of
Filbert Street
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in San Francisco.
(Both streets are one-way down; bottom of the 22nd St hill at
1956 viewseems to show a two-way street.)
See also
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22nd Street (Caltrain station)
22nd Street station is a Caltrain commuter rail station located south of 22nd Street between the Dogpatch and Potrero Hill neighborhoods of San Francisco, California beneath the Interstate 280 freeway viaduct. The only below-grade Caltrain st ...
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Baldwin Street, Dunedin
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— ''the world's steepest residential street''.
References
Streets in San Francisco
Mission District, San Francisco
Potrero Hill, San Francisco
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